4 responses to “St John of the Cross”

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   fr dougal

   16/12/2011

   I love the Dali but thought it was much better in the St Mungo than Kelvingrove. SJC was the poetry/spirituality of my High Church youth.

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   kelvin

   16/12/2011

   Actually, I prefer it in Kelvingrove though that may be something to do with the memory of going to see it as a child.

   I think I heard that they are shifting it again from the end of the long collonade, which I think would be a shame, particularly as it was hung in contradistinction to Stephen Conroy’s magnificent self portrait (at the end of the nearest next collonade) which I suspect most people don’t realise is also a crucifixion.

   http://www.artfund.org/artwork/9674/self-portrait-1

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   Ruth

   17/12/2011

   When I saw it in Kelvingrove in August, it was in a small room. Although I waited till the sardine tin crush of no more than a dozen people had left, there was still no space to stand back and appreciate it – the lighting wasn’t helpful either. It was so much better at the end of the long corridor.

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   fr dougal

   17/12/2011

   I think it had the space at St Mungo and you had plenty of room to sit on the sofa and gaze at it. But hey, it’s still a wonderful art work.

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